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Neither player could capitalize on her serve,
with Pegula scoring on only 63 percent of her first serves to 66
percent for Raducanu in the two-hour, 42-minute match. Each
broke serve six times, but there was no bigger point than in the
second-set tiebreaker, when Raducanu fended off match point down
6-5 and went on to take the set.
Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, the fifth seed, also was upset, with
Katie Boulter of Great Britain earning the 6-4, 7-5 victory.
Other winners included No. 3 seed Jasmine Paolini of Italy, who
was up 5-2 when Elise Mertens of Belgium retired, No. 4 seed
Madison Keys, sixth-seeded Russian Daria Kasatkina and unseeded
Leylah Fernandez of Canada, Brit Harriet Dart and Czech Karolina
Muchova.
Bad Homburg
Former World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark moved into the
quarterfinals in Germany with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Veronika
Kudermetova of Russia.
Wozniacki won six straight games to close out the first set and
go up 2-0 in the second, aided by converting 70 percent of
points on her serve compared with 49 percent for her opponent.
Next up for Wozniacki will be No. 3 seed Emma Navarro, who
handled fellow American Peyton Stearns 6-4, 6-1.
Other winners were Czech Katerina Siniakova and Russia's Diana
Shnaider.
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